Paul Sharits Movies

  • 1965
    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

    Wrist Trick

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    Various gestures of hand held razorblade, single frame exposures.

    Wrist Trick
  • 1974
    Color Sound Frames

    Color Sound Frames

    Color Sound Frames

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    Sharits produced Color Sound Frames by rephotographing strips of his previous films. He moved the strips, singly and in pairs, across a light table...

    Color Sound Frames
  • 1966
    Ray Gun Virus

    Ray Gun Virus

    Ray Gun Virus

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    Paul Shartis's Ray Gun Virus (1966) is a transfixing, must-see-in-person “flicker” film that distills the cinematic experience to...

    Ray Gun Virus
  • 1968
    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

    Razor Blades

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    In Razor Blades, Paul SHARITS consciously challenges our eyes, ears and minds to withstand a barrage of high powered and often contradictory stimuli....

    Razor Blades
  • 1976
    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison

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    The films are of two patients, extracted from a medical film study of brain wave activity during seizures.

    Epileptic Seizure Comparison
  • 1966
    Piece Mandala/End War

    Piece Mandala/End War

    Piece Mandala/End War

    4.71966HD

    Blank color frequencies space out and optically feed into monochrome images of one lovemaking act which is seen simultaneously from both sides of its...

    Piece Mandala/End War
  • 1969
    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G

    5.71969HD

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G uses flickering frames of solid color juxtaposed with positive and negative still images of a man—sometimes cutting off his own...

    T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G
  • 1977
    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?

    4.91977HD

    “Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning...

    On the Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?
  • 1971
    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED

    3.61971HD

    Streaming, scratched lines continuously appear two at a time over images of flowing water.

    S:TREAM:S:S:ECTION:S:ECTION:S:S:ECTIONED
  • 1974
    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

    Vertical Contiguity

    01974HD

    Paul Sharits short work

    Vertical Contiguity
  • 2006
    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    Funtime at the Vasulkas

    02006HD

    A recording of a meeting in the studio where Jeffrey Schier and Woody show colleagues and teachers a new tool. Between 1976 and 1980, Woody and...

    Funtime at the Vasulkas
  • 1970
    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits

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    Cinématon n°120 : Paul Sharits
  • 1975
    Apparent Motion

    Apparent Motion

    Apparent Motion

    01975HD

    The images for this project were first obtained by enlarging, with an optical printer, frames of evenly distributed grain particles from a black and...

    Apparent Motion
  • 1974
    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

    Synchronousoundtracks

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    Synchronousoundtracks
  • 1976
    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame

    01976HD

    A set of short pure color studies, usually exploring one dominant hue. Most of these works were studies for longer projects. The last four "migraine"...

    Analytical Studies I: The Film Frame
  • 1973
    Axiomatic Granularity

    Axiomatic Granularity

    Axiomatic Granularity

    01973HD

    "There is a paradox in such artistically special (and significant) films as Sharits' very real and reflexively beautiful AXIOMATIC GRANULARITY. It is...

    Axiomatic Granularity
  • 1971
    Inferential Current

    Inferential Current

    Inferential Current

    01971HD

    A mapping of an image of the linear passage of '16mm film frames' and 'emulsion scratches' onto actual 16mm film strip (the unperceived film...

    Inferential Current
  • 1974
    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions

    01974HD

    Footage of a strip of damaged film.

    The Forgetting of Impressions and Intentions
  • 1976
    Tirgu Jiu

    Tirgu Jiu

    Tirgu Jiu

    01976HD

    A flicker film of colorful squares.

    Tirgu Jiu
  • 1984
    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu

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    A chronicle of Sharits' 1977 visit to Romania to experience three of Brancusi's most famous sculptures.

    Brancusi's Sculpture Garden at Tirgu Jiu